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Iron Ship Report for Westgate, 27th March 1885

Westgate

A current reference number/code used to uniquely identify each record.

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-LIV587-0220-R

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Report

Name of the survey office responsible for inspecting a vessel, and linked to the port of survey abbreviation used.

Survey office

Liverpool

The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Place of build

Liverpool

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

27/03/1885

The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.

Year of ship completion

1885

The individual and/or organisation listed as having been responsible for constructing the vessel. This can/may be the same as the owner and/or manager.

Shipbuilder

R & J Evans

Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.

Yard no

118

Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.

Port of survey abbreviations

Liv

Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.

Document identity

Iron Ship

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

27/03/1885

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

Watkins

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Liverpool

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

08/05/1885

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Melbourne

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

S - Ship

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Iron

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

1921

Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?

Machinery aft?

No

Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).

Is a donkey boiler fitted?

No

Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.

Lloyd's Proving House?

No

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Took fire & Sunk

Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Area of ship loss

River Thames

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

25/12/1897

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Westgate

The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.

Launch Date

31/01/1885

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

R & J Evans & Co

The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Place of build

Liverpool

Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.

Survey number

30295

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

06/12/1883

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Chadwick & Prietchard

Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record

Document author

William Moverly

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

William Moverly

Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.

Classification

+100A1; Record +; Cem 8; Lloyds A & Cp

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Liverpool; Melbourne

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

undefined

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.

Refrigeration machinery fitted for cargo purposes?

No

Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?

Auxillary

No

Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?

Electric light fitted?

No

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Deferred

Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

South West India Dock

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

United Kingdom

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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